Documenting a 20-year period when jazz evolved from bebop to soul jazz and representing a who's who of the jazz world in the 1950s and 60s, this two-CD collection contains classic after classic of "golden age" jazz. Selections include "Subconscious-Lee" by Lee Konitz and Lennie Tristano, "I'm in the Mood for Love" by James Moody, "I Want to Be Happy" by Sonny Stitt and Bud Powell, "Blue Monk" by Thelonious Monk, "Airegin" by Miles Davis, "Django" by the Modern Jazz Quartet, "Tenor Madness" by Sonny Rollins with John Coltrane, "St. Thomas" by Rollins, "If I Were a Bell" and "My Funny Valentine" by the Miles Davis Quintet, "Hey Now" by the Red Garland Trio, "I Love You" by John Coltrane, "Why Was I Born?" by Kenny Burrell and Coltrane, "Very Saxy" by Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Coleman Hawkins, et al., "Lotus Blossom" by Kenny Dorham, "Hittin' the Jug" by Gene Ammons, "Les" by Eric Dolphy, "The Plum Blossom" by Yusef Lateef, "Three for Dizzy" by Roland Kirk with Jack McDuff, "Soul Shoutin'" by Shirley Scott, "Misty" by Richard "Groove" Holmes, "Waltz for Geri" by Pat Martino, "Fried Bananas" by Dexter Gordon, and more.